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Moments of Unreason: The Practice of Canadian Psychiatry and the Homewood Retreat, 1883-1923

By Cheryl Krasnick Warsh

Book information

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
1989
ISBN
9780773562035
DOI
10.1515/9780773562035
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (15137679 bytes)
Pages
304\304
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-09-26 22:19:48

Description

In late Victorian and Edwardian Canada, confinement in an asylum was a common fate for many middle-class women who, as a consequence of economic dependency, menopause and other physical realities of their life cycles, or patriarchal inequities, were perceived as burdens to their families or the community. Family members who paid for care often influenced matters of diagnosis, discharge, and even therapeutics. External manipulation created ethical and practical problems for asylum managers who fell victim to it.

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